Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggling in the toils of nature and landed ogres, dying in blizzards, falling with boot-broken backs. First Icelander ever to win a Nobel Prize, he hoped that Iceland's tax collectors "will leave me 10% for brandy." Early next month, Leftist Laxness will get his gold medal, diploma and $36.720 jackpot from Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf...
...curbstone undertakers" were curbed by their colleagues, and sanitary standards were generally set up before the law got around to it. In some states it now takes three years-two in college and one in a school of "mortuary science''-to get an undertaker's diploma...
Summa cum Laude. In Rome, Aristide Egidi, 47, was arrested for posing as a physician when police learned that his elegant, Greek-written diploma was an oldtime letter of recommendation after his work as a chauffeur in the Greek embassy...
Frankie could not have cared less. He had already decided what he wanted to do with his life, and it didn't require a high-school diploma. At the age of 16, he had seen Bing Crosby on the stage. Cried Sinatra, in a voice that broke in his mouth like raw spaghetti: "I can do that!" Dolly and Marty had a good laugh. "G'wan, ya bum." his father used to twit him. "Why'n't ya go to work?" Frankie would burst into tears of rage and frustration, but his ambition held firm...
...wake of criticism over the high (27%) rate of failures locally on the state regents history exam-one of the tests that usually determine whether a high-school senior will get an academic diploma -some New York City school officials were reportedly considering a move to disregard the traditional exam entirely, apparently on the theory that what Johnny doesn't know shouldn't hurt him. Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these...